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November 8, 2023
Measuring the Geography of Social Networks
…of individuals’ real-life social networks, this data provides researchers with the rare opportunity to measure real-world social networks at population scale and ask: who knows whom, and does this matter?…
November 1, 2023
The Ultimate Social Capital: A Story to Save the Union
…families. But none of it will matter if we are not also able to restore our lost sense of shared belonging and common purpose by dint of being Americans. Without…
October 31, 2023
Lawmakers Continue Trying to Revive Pandemic-Style Benefits
In 2008, Rahm Emanuel, chief of staff to President-elect Barack Obama, famously issued Rahm’s rule: “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that…
October 31, 2023
It Takes Two
…influences on their children? These questions matter, because, in the real world, the alternative to children living with a single parent is not always two nurturing, married, biological parents who…
October 27, 2023
What Happened to the American Dream?
…from its immigration heterodoxies, those concessions are mostly framed as a matter of coalition building and pragmatic political necessity. The underlying liberal social model is assumed to be basically compatible…
October 27, 2023
What liberals don’t understand about men and marriage
…obligation to be the best fathers they can be” regardless of their marital status. We agree with Reeves about this obligation: fatherhood matters even if a marriage never took place…
October 25, 2023
The Freedom to Choose
…the best time to be alive, materially or socially, is right now. By contrast, many American conservatives have looked at the nation’s remarkable progress and, focusing on the losses, have…
October 25, 2023
Dispelling Myths About The Child Tax Credit
Every culture has its famous myths, such as Bigfoot and the Loch Ness monster, and the world of politics is no different. Take, for example, President Joe Biden’s claims that…
October 23, 2023
Teach Your Children Well
…are also real habits and real pieces of knowledge that enable some kids to get ahead. And they matter a lot more than whether you know different words for Italian…
October 18, 2023
Vocation: A Cure for Burnout
…the material fruits it produces–a meaning that can only be described as spiritual, whether spirituality is formally recognized or not. Even under the pressures of automation, consumerism, and growing secularization, humans…